S1 • E1
Mr. Angel gives a lonely young woman who offers her bus seat to an elderly man the chance to meet Mr. Right.
S1 • E2
An expectant father is presented with his wished-for opportunity to become a professional baseball player--just as his wife goes into labor.
S1 • E3
When Maxine wishes for more adventure in her life, she gets more than she can handle, including a dune-buggy ride and unwanted advances from a truck driver.
S1 • E4
Timid bank teller Harold asks Mr. Angel for help in attracting Nancy, the teller at the next window. Mr. Angel grants Harold his wish and Nancy agrees to a date--except that she chooses a restaurant on the 26th floor, and Harold is claustrophobic and secretly terrified of elevators.
S1 • E5
A woman named Jane is about to get an inheritance, but she wants to find her long-lost twin sister first, to make sure that she gets her share, but so far she hasn't been successful. When she helps someone, Mr. Angel shows up to grant her a wish. She wishes to find her sister. Mr. Angel tells her that he can't make her find her sister just like that, but he can make sure she's on the right track. This takes her to people who know her sister--but some aren't so fond of her.
S1 • E6
An orphan gives his suitcase to another orphan who is being adopted. Mr. Angel goes to see him and offers him a wish, and he wishes for a family, but he's at the age that most people don't want to adopt. He runs away from the orphanage and is taken in by a man who runs a rib joint, and they bond.
S1 • E7
Mr. Angel grants a Midwestern farm girl's wish to spend the night with her favorite actor, but the circumstances of their meeting are not what she had in mind.
S1 • E8
A young writer wants to be published. And when his boss sends him out of town on an errand, he discovers that he is delivering some sensitive material and there are people trying to get it from him.
S1 • E9
When a singer-guitarist asks Mr. Angel for a "big break" in show business, she winds up breaking her foot instead. However, her visit to the hospital ultimately leads to her long-desired break.
S1 • E10
Eager to free himself from burdensome alimony payments, Adam Hastings wishes for his wife to remarry. The granting of this wish leads to new worries, however, with a stepfather now in his children's lives.
S1 • E11
When a tailor gives a young man credit on a suit he made for him, Mr. Angel comes to see him and offers him a wish. He wants to win something special. The man is also a chess enthusiast and owns a very expensive chess set. At a place where he goes to play chess, an arrogant chess champion puts his cup on the chess set and, thinking that getting the cup is his wish, he challenges the man for his cup against his chess set. But on the day he's supposed to play, he breaks his glasses and can't see.
S1 • E12
Exhausted by the constant quarreling with his wife, Brad wishes to find out what his life would be like if he'd married his college sweetheart Gloria.
S1 • E13
Shoe-store owner Henry wishes for an opportunity to break into show business as a comedian.
Mr. Angel
Jerry
Maitre d'
Brad
Henry
Adam Hastings
Gloria
Pete Benson
Pauline
Elsie Hastings